Sustainable Bioenergy, Farms, and Forests - April 27, 2018

EPA Declares Biomass Carbon Neutral—Biomass, Forestry Industries Quietly Paved the Way

As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting questions around potential ethics violations and flagrant spending while in office, earlier this week, the Administrator announced that EPA had declared biomass as carbon neutral. It is an odd move for an administrator who has made it his mission to roll back environmental regulations while also claiming that there is no link between climate change and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  But despite the climate double-speak, Pruitt’s move on biogenic carbon comes at the behest of the biomass and forestry industries, which have long sought an end to their regulatory purgatory at the EPA.   

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4. The Staggering Environmental Footprint of All the Food That We Just Throw in the Trash
5. Rural Kansas Is Dying. I Drove 1,800 Miles to Find Out Why

 

 

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